1972, New York. In John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s apartment, the TV is permanently on, acting as a ‘window to the world’.
Through their television this inventive documentary explores the America of that time, the Lennons’ evolving politics and their complex personal life as they search for Yoko’s estranged daughter Kyoko against the backdrop of the Nixon-McGovern election. Featuring previously unheard phone recordings and music from John’s only post-Beatles concert, it reveals the world that John and Yoko inhabited and the couple’s relevance, which still stands today.
Becoming Led Zeppelin explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.
Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances, and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story.
The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group.
Cert 12A
Elton John’s Billy Elliot musical – based on Stephen Daldry’s 2000 film – beamed into cinemas, shot live in HD at Victoria Palace Theatre in London’s West End.
Based on the Academy Award® nominated film, Billy Elliot the Musical has won the hearts of millions since it opened in London’s West End in 2005. Set in a northern mining town, against the background of the 1984/85 miners’ strike, Billy’s journey takes him out of the boxing ring and into a ballet class where he discovers a passion for dance that inspires his family and whole community and changes his life forever.
Cert 15
Book Tickets
Landlines Studio present a screening of the film ‘The Nettle Dress’, as part of the programme of events for their current retrospective “Un/Earthed”.
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion and also his medicine. It’s how he survives the death of his wife Alex and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
Director Dylan Howitt says: ‘This is a story about the deep value of creativity and imagination, and a slow, mindful craft that is more in tune with the natural world.’
Produced, directed, filmed and edited by Dylan Howitt
Foraged, spun, woven and sewn by Allan Brown
“Exquisite, beautiful and inspiring” – Sir Mark Rylance
This event is part of the programme for Un/Earthed – A Retrospective by Landlines Studio, which runs 12th February – 28th June.
Exhibition Information
Sweet, tender and serene; Drylongso is a coming-of-age drama that follows the life of Pica, a vivacious and passionate young photography student.
After attending one too many funerals, Pica decides to fully immerse herself in her work and channel her trauma through her art. Perfectly encapsulating the life of a young black girl in Oakland where gang activity is steadily rising, Cauleen Smith comments on femininity, sexism, violence and friendships in this fantastic feature film debut!
They’ll be screening this groundbreaking classic in DIY filmmaking in May 15th at Metal, Edge Hill Station. Tickets start from £1 so grab yours now by clicking the link on the right or on the door!
7PM – DOORS OPENThey’ll be serving refreshments7:30PM – DRYLONGSO BEGINS9:00PM – POST SCREENING DISCUSSION
THE FILMYear: 1998Runtime: 1h 21mCertificate: 12Director: Cauleen SmithWriters: Cauleen Smith, Salim AkilCountry: AmericaLanguages: EnglishGenre: DramaCast: Toby Smith, April Barnett, Salim Akil, Will Power, Channel Schafer
Synopsis: A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.Trigger Warning: Violence
Sweet, tender and serene; Drylongso is a coming-of-age drama that follows the life of Pica, a vivacious and passionate young photography student.
After attending one too many funerals, Pica decides to fully immerse herself in her work and channel her trauma through her art. Perfectly encapsulating the life of a young black girl in Oakland where gang activity is steadily rising, Cauleen Smith comments on femininity, sexism, violence and friendships in this fantastic feature film debut!
They’ll be screening this groundbreaking classic in DIY filmmaking in May 15th at Metal, Edge Hill Station. Tickets start from £1 so grab yours now by clicking the link on the right or on the door!
7PM – DOORS OPEN
They’ll be serving refreshments
7:30PM – DRYLONGSO BEGINS
9:00PM – POST SCREENING DISCUSSION
THE FILM
Year: 1998
Runtime: 1h 21m
Certificate: 12
Director: Cauleen Smith
Writers: Cauleen Smith, Salim Akil
Country: America
Languages: English
Genre: Drama
Cast: Toby Smith, April Barnett, Salim Akil, Will Power, Channel Schafer
Synopsis: A young woman in a photography class begins taking pictures of black men out of fear they will soon be extinct.
Trigger Warning: Violence
Drylongso trailer
This screening is in collaboration with Liverpool African Diaspora Film Network
Presented by Black Girl Watching Film Club
Mystery Theatre Club Edition 14
Metrocola
Doors at 7pm
Pay What You Can ( cash on door )
After a brief stint away and a few secret screenings, Mystery Theatre Club is back!
This time they’re upstairs at Metrocola in town!
In May we will be screening Ash & Money, a favourite during our residency at Kitty’s Launderette.
Ash and Money is the first film project by Theatre NO99. It is a full length making-of documentary that sheds light into how NO75 Unified Estonia came to be, interviews the people behind the project and also many political figures in office at the time and looks into how the process of creating possibly the biggest contemporary performing arts event in recent European history evolved in real time.
The NO99 Theater announced in March of 2010 that it would use all the tricks commonly used in politics and communications over the following two months to create a new successful and energetic super-party. The theater organized a party convention and staged it with the participation of 7000 people. The documentary film produced about the project and its influences is a study of the state of affairs in democracy, the media and grass-roots society in the Republic of Estonia.
BUT time did it’s work…
Situation changed and people changed.
Or did they?
Join Kitty’s Launderette to celebrate the life of the Irish revolutionary Bobby Sands, who died at 27 years old, 44 years ago on the 5th of May.
A screening of HUNGER (2008) by Steve McQueen.
SYNOPSIS:
Within Maze Prison in Northern Ireland, Irish republican Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbinder) along with fellow prisoners take part in a ‘dirty protest’ in pursuit of countering a criminalisation policy by the British government and gaining recognition as political prisoners. These protests soon escalate into hunger strikes, where the young man withstands great moral and political pressures in pursuit of freedom for the Irish people. For his first feature film, McQueen crafts an intimate account following Bobby’s final weeks, till his eventual death on the 5th of May, 1981.
They’ll be serving up some hot Colcannon soup before the film starts on a first-come, first serve basis.
Afterwards, a loosely guided discussion about the film and its portrayal of state violence. Please stick around to share your thoughts!
Suggested Donation is £5
(This covers cost of ingredients and printing our programming notes.)
Timings:
DOORS: 6:45pm
FILM + INTERMISSION: 7:30pm
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION: 9:15pm
END: 9:45pm
Accessibility info:
Kitty’s Laundrette is step-free and has a disabled toilet.
Film screened with closed captions unless mentioned, and a midway toilet break.
Film Night!
George (Bob Hoskins) is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson), he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King’s Cross days. That’s when George’s troubles just start, as he begins to fall in love with Simone as she harbours a secret..
One of Britain’s finest noir films of the 80s, it’s a title often overlooked with it’s portrayal of the seedy underbelly of the Capital and the characters that populate it. A thrilling meditation on obsession, deception and mystery. Join Kitty’s Launderetee for another great film in their series of British Gems.
Tea, coffee and popcorn provided!
Doors: 7pm
Film Starts: 7:30pm
Film Duration: 105 minutes + 10 minute intermission.
Director Menelick Shabazz had already caught the turbulence of this time period with ‘Blood Ah Go Run’, a documentary following the protests around the tragedy of the New Cross Fire in January of the same year.
For his first narrative feature, Shabazz takes the cinematic tradition of social realism to craft a beautiful story about a young woman called Pat, and her journey of self discovery. Though she initially seeks security in the thought of becoming a wife to her volatile boyfriend Del, their lives are turned upside down when he is arrested in an instance of police brutality. Throughout the film, we get to see her power and autonomy blossom outside of patriarchal expectations: from a strong sense of political solidarity with women in her community.
A truly fantastic film about the working class struggle from the perspective of Britain’s first, Black female protagonist.
There will be hot drinks and refreshments provided.
Please stick around for a post-screening discussion!
